Coupling two radar backscattering models to assess soil roughness and surface water content at farm scale;Couplage de deux modèles de rétrodiffusion radar pour évaluer la rugosité et l'humidité du sol à l'échelle d'une exploitation agricole

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1677-1689

  Capodici, F ^a   Maltese, A ^a   Ciraolo, G ^a   La Loggia, G ^a   D'Urso, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

backscattering; soil water content; surface roughness; vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATA; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; VEGETATION INDEX; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING;

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SPACE OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL WATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATER; VEGETATION INDEX; WATER CONTENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887086069     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.797578     Document Type: Article

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